Cutting board Blood grooves and finger recesses

What size bit do you generally use? I’d like to put some finger grooves on the ends of my boards. They are generally somewhere between 1 1/2” and 1 1/4” thick. I bought this bit today but I think it may be too wide. The cutting diameter is 5/8”. I haven’t used it yet and am thinking of exchanging it for the 1/2” cutting diameter bit.

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So far , I’ve used the 1/2” roundnose for my juice grooves , but haven’t made any with routed handles / finger grips yet.I think if the board is very large , you might want to use the larger bit just to keep things in scale , and make it easier to grip.